Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett wrote:
On Friday 22 June 2007 09:53:54 Benji Weber wrote:
Unlike the term "installation source" (which is a term invented for this specific usage, people would have to learn what it means). "Repository" is a common English word that is used for exactly this purpose. To quote the Oxford English Dictionary a repository is:
Similar in spanish: repositorio. (Del lat. repositorĭum, armario, alacena).
- m. Lugar donde se guarda algo.
(Place where you store something).
Still, I find Bart's argument the most powerful one. Widely used and present in published standards Let's see what else we can find. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_repository (no, I didn't just write it). 'man apt-get': two instances of "repository" 'man yum': two instances of "repository" 'man createrepo': five instances of "repository" (not to mention the name of the command, and the name of the metadata it creates ("repomd").
When you go to http://software.opensuse.org/download, and select a repository (see, it just sounds natural), you'll see a "repodata" folder, and a "<project>.repo" file. In the DMTF Server Management Working Group email archives, there are discussions about the yet-to-be-published Software Repository Profile, including a slide deck called "Software Repository Profile Requirements" -- 14 instances of "repository" in 4 slides. Unfortunately these discussions are password protected, so I can't share the documents on this public list. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help@opensuse.org